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by jongjong 6mo ago
What did he do specifically to crater his reputation? Is it his politics? He seems to have reasonable beliefs there. It's not like he's been supporting Trump unconditionally. He doesn't always agree with Trump. Is it because
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Yep and I think unfortunately people don't understand human nature because they look at themselves and look at their neighbours to estimate it... But human nature is very different when evaluated from the centres of power. Humans near
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by jongjong 6mo ago
They really don't want people scraping their data with extensions. The LI API response is the worst tangled mess I've ever seen... It's so bad, I have to assume it's intentional. Took me 3 days to parse their responses.
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by jongjong 6mo ago
People won't be able to afford to leave their beds because food prices will be too high to justify the energy cost of standing up. Every joule of human energy is energy that could have been better spent to produce AI slop for other AI
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Studies are extremely difficult to get right. I'm generally a little bit skeptical of data for this reason. A bit of a tangent but still on the subject of environmental pollution; the other day I found out that CO2 sensor sensitivity n
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by jongjong 6mo ago
What I'm hoping for is for more competition in the tech sector. I'm tired of companies foisting Microsoft or Oracle products on everyone! WTF! The current tech sector feels like all companies are subsidiaries of Big Tech... It&#x2
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Unfortunately for me, I believe that the algorithms won't allow me to get exposure for my work no matter how good it is so there is literally no benefit for me to do open source. Though I would love to, I'm not in a position to wo
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Wow. This is theft. Should be illegal! It's like if I own a vault storage business and I am keeping other people's gold in my vaults and then I just take all the gold for myself and claim that the customers should have opted out o
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Well corporate stocks have the same dynamic. People are banding together and manipulating reality in unproductive ways to make their stocks go up. Countries literally go to war so that weapon dealers can sell weapons and banks can later sel
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by jongjong 7mo ago
I don't agree that it's not innovation. It always looks stupidly simple with hindsight to just remove unnecessary complexity, and yet it's extremely rare to see a team which actually does it right on the first go. Getting the
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Yes this is a great point. The great irony of the tech sector is that although tech creates efficiencies, the process by which tech is created is itself comically inefficient. Almost nobody, especially those working for government actually
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Microsoft has been butchering software development for decades and maintaining dominance through pure business, legal and government connections. It's become like Oracle. Developers being forced to use horrible Microsoft products is th
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Disturbingly, AI is set to replace essentially any position that is useful, to the extent that it is useful and somehow some people still think they should adapt themselves to the system instead of working to adapt the system to them! Basic
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Exactly and most of the advertisers are attention monopolies anyways and only using ads to reinforce their monopolies.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
The media is a powerful force. When I first tried Ubuntu decades ago it was like an awakening and I started seeing every developer using Windows and Mac as brainwashed fools. That's not to pick on others because I also started seeing m
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by jongjong 7mo ago
When I read the headline I thought "Fake compliance as a service" sounded like a great idea. The rookie mistake they made is they forgot to bribe the regulators with promises of future job offers.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
The headline is incorrect. Chuck Norris didn't die, he transcended. Also, the grim reaper hasn't yet gathered the courage to tell him.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Haha. I was like "Glad you've got this 4D chess going on in your head but the user can only see in 3D, buddy."
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by jongjong 7mo ago
I mean the 4chan lawyer makes a good point. If you think about it, it's the Internet Service Providers in the UK who choose choose to allow this US content into the UK. Why go after 4chan? The ISPs could just shut down the BGP protocol
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by jongjong 7mo ago
The problem with Trump is that his only values are centered around business and deal making. It's all about loyalty, not about truth. Clearly he doesn't have much tolerance for disagreement.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
This is relatable. I did a side project with a non-technical co-founder a year ago and every time he told me what he wanted, I made a list of like 9 or 10 logical contradictions in his requirements and I had to walk him through what he said
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by jongjong 7mo ago
- What's the catch? It's better than forcing the population to pour all their money into stocks that they don't understand just to stay ahead of inflation. This form of passive investing is creating a lot of problems under th
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by jongjong 7mo ago
It sucks so bad to be a software dev today. We simultaneously have to worry about: - Market monopolies reducing options/leverage - Outsourcing - AI automation - Complexity explosion These days, every company which has money is using so
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Yeah it's interesting. For any activity where rich people care about outcomes, suddenly they want full liability. We need to say no to diffuse harms and concentrated gains.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
What kinds of innovations require protecting people from being held liable for harms that they participated in? Economic growth for whom and at whose expense?
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by jongjong 7mo ago
I don't like the limited liability construct. There needs to be full liability shared between all stakeholders.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
It's hard for me to tell because I've seen this multiple times in my career (in tech). People wasting investors' money getting funding over and over while those actually building stuff get suppressed. I swear there are some p
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by jongjong 7mo ago
This guy is a crook. Every adjective you could use to describe this guy goes against my core values.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
These fraudsters who get second chances have got blackmail. Trust me, all the people we see in the media are sharks. They only help each other if they feel a threat or have something to gain.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
I just can't comprehend the mental process or discussion that happened which led to this guy getting a pardon. It's just hard to imagine that anybody would give a f about this fraudster. Only explanation is he must know some dirt

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